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LITERATURE. THE TIN TRUMPET. 11. THE LATB PAUL CHATFIELD, M.D. London: Whittaker and Co., 1836. There is a considerable resemblance between Paul Chatfield' "tin Trumpet" and " Voltaire's Philoso phical Dictionary," although in the more laboured articles the two works will admit of no comparison. There is much of the same sort of graceful smart ness --of elegant foible-fencing—of satirical distortion of the most familiar objects, so as to render them ri diculous ; and at the same time, of that constant play u r pon• word s i n the " Tin Trumpet, " which every Mere must h ave o b serve d i n i ts F renc h A nt i -type. litre and there we have a passage recalling our re- Collection of cc Bacon's Aphorisms," and the more familiar articles in Boyle ;" but the deep solid foun dation is wanting ; and before the favourable impres kelt has sunk in the mind, we stumble over some silly ext ract from " Joe Miller," so trifling in itself, and l° completely ou t o f p l ac e , t h at we are h a lf tempte d to f ling the b oo k b e hi n d t h e fi re, w i t h an impreca tion upon the head of every author who has the bad taste to disfigure the fair creations of his own brain with the hil filthy habiliments scattered over the dung le of literature. The work is alphabetically ar ranged in the form of . a dictionary, and the longest ar ticle does not exten d over more t h an a coup l e o f pages. lad Mr. Jefferson Saunders, the editor, compressed th e • two volumes into one, there would not have been, tW o years h ence , a more popu l ar b oo k i n E ng l an d . Th e following extracts from it will convey to the Pu blic a fair impression of the character of the book : b " AC COMPLISHMENTS—In w omen a ll th a t can b e s u pplied dancing-ma.ster, music -master,.. mantua-maker and Lttier. In men, tying a cravat, talking nonsense, playing atihlliards, dressing like a real, and driving like an amateur ipbj em rn e a n tl : The latter is an excusable ambition, even in our for it shows that they know themselves, and have "Ind properer place, and more congenial elevation than the rers ge. Some there are, who, deeming dissolute manners fthrl ac complishment, endeavour to show by their profligacy at they know the world, an example which might be dange- L t ly but th at t h e wor ld k nows t h em . A ccom pli s h ments are able ---b u t nothing so sociable as a cultivated' mind. ALICISTRT— " They who on length of ancestry enlarge, 1 „_ Produce their debt instead of a discharge. ' TlieY search in the root of the tree for those fruits which the ,i7enes ought to produce, and too often resemble patatoes, of Which the best part is under ground. Pedigree is the boast At er who have nothing e l se t o vaunt . I n w h at respect, k` g er all are th ey super i or to the humblest of their neigh wars ? ' t „ e , Every man's ancestors double at each r emo v e in gee. I t : ll ea' proportion, so that after only tw en ty generations, he d h .above a milli on o f progen i tors. A d u k e h as no more—a - 7aan has no less. A• river genera ll y b ecomes narrower an d more i ns i gn ifi. oo t ? as we a scen d t o it s source . Th e stream o f ancestry, 10e contrary, often vigorous, pure, and powerful at its foun ir bead, usually becomes more feeble, shallow, and corrupt ohn ,• lt , fl ows downwards. Some of our ancient families, wh ose 14 ; t ein is lost i n t h e d ar k ness o f ant i qu i ty , an d i nto w h ose h ungry to ws th e t i de of patronage is for ever flowing, may be coin tie i l ‘ e t to the Nil e , w hi c h h as many mouths, and no discovera raq i e ad• Nobles sometimes illustrate hat name about as e i "as an Italian Cicerone recalls the idea of Cicero. 4n eiarirs—Deadbones used for the purpose of knocking Wa live flesh. Every puny Samson thinks he may wield p k i as a's jaw -bone in assaulting his contemporaries, by corn %mg them with their predecessors. If architects attempt air ed original, they are ridiculed for their pains, and de th,-0 stick t o th e fiv e or d ers . Thi s i s t h e s i xt h or d er o f the public. If artists follow the bent of their own genius, kLare tauntingly referred by their new masters to the old AiT t lrs, and desired not to indulge their own crude capriccios. I t i,`'Ors are schooled and catechized in the same way r *he n either of the three conform to the instructions of their l iv t . ies, they are instantly and unmercifully assailed as servile nators, without a single grain of originality. Ti s invariably eurry—Thestalking horse , on which knaves and mount, sta when they want to ride over the timid fi k b o nd t he credulous. Never do we hear so much solemn palaver otir at the time-hallowed institutions, and approved wisdom of Rariancestors, as when attempts are made to remove some ng monument of their folly. Thus is the youth, nonage, lir n ance, and inexperience of the world invested by a strange Y€ l .7 .l er, which Bacon was the first to indicate, with the re -4;e due to the present times, which are its true old age. kin(' Antiquity is the young miscreant, the type , of corn teled ignorance and tyranny, who massacred prisoners &,.,!° in war, sacrificed human beings to idols, burnt them in 4101tbfield as heretics or witches, believed in astrology, demo tit gY, sorcery, the philosopher's stone, and every exploded b 4. 21 and enormity ; although his example is still gravely iia;', e b d as a rule of conduct, and a standing argument against It er ' a tion•—that is to say, improvement 1 If the seal of time 'j ot ,: to be the signet of truth, there is no absurdity, oppres th ,c l ' falsehood, that might not be received as gospel ; while gi iil r°spel itself would want the more ancient warrant of Pa- Ri se st n• Never was the world so old, and consequently so 14;4 mason o-day ; but it will be older, and therefore, still i th- ow. filly :1 One generation the most ancient individual has gene- Yo t , "ue most experience ; but in succession of generations, the To 4est, o r last of them, is the real Methuselah and Mentor. ahipi, l l . B obvious distinction, nothing can blind us but gross of th " l tY, or the most miserable cant. To plead the authority li t ilaneients, is to appeal from civilized and enlightened Mi er la,ns, to fierce unlettered Pagans ; for no one has decided Plat ':,, t ds boasted wisdom begins or ends, though all agree bin f° is of great-age. Every elderly man is an ancestor to b ,.uer self. Let him compare his boyish notions and feel torre"ltil his matured judgment, and he will form a pretty el l ike.t notion of the wisdom of our ancestors ; for what the A L s to th e man , are t h e past generat i ons to t h e present. bor,r l 'EmiaNeas—keeping up. A moral, or, rather um %l : Uttering of counterfeit coin. It is astonishing how much Ptes s li b ad money is current in society, bearing the fair im ttei,,h nf ladi es and gentlemen. The former, if carefully eet: e ed f will always be found light, or you may presently g ang rnent ip ti I You Bo th ring them though this istheir a somewhat • perilous . may ' be by assuming a more tha r i , and showy appearance than their neighbours, as if their 4,4 ete rs were b r i g ht er , t h e i r i mpress i ons more p er f ec t, an d Bo e rs more pure, than all others." 7/t V ALE OF LANGHERNE, AND OTHER POEMS. Br HENRY SEWELL STOKES. T L • London : Lo ngman an d C o ., 1836. eh Th e author of this volume has feeling and fancy in .... If 'ince. His love of the moral and the picturesque h . a Ppreciation of the beautiful and the good— will , 41 admiration of the grand and the magnificent, tilt be readily admitted by every reader of cultivated too ' e and sound critical judgment. But he has faults dn; w to ll ich in justice to himself we consider it our nrd er Point out. The greatest of these is a want of ei osh . and classifi ca ti on i n hi s id eas , t h e resu lt o f sahi e lll g , and, half-formed opinions, upon a variety of oh. etB * The next is the want of aim, or end, or Jact h e r 11 his larger poem, and indeed in all the verses ore the u s- The last is the natural consequence of tw 410„ t °- -nainely, a frequent interweaving of the t tee _ ul leordont ma t er i a l s , w hi c h h as b y no means an cor r able effect upon the reader. These may be all rte cor rect effect u. With care, for they are all within the province a k oo P resuming Mr. Sewell Stokes to be a young tee,L an d as such amenable to good counsel, we would happ y himap to get rid of his admiration for the et the „•Y c ondition o f our savage ancestors—to fli ng as id e his a P .t raP senti menta li ty, or rat h er mau dli n cant o f Which order --and never t o t urn as id e f ro m the cours e ell his lan ce genius may prescrib e f or him, to break a The cincwitßlue-stocking eith er Blue-stockin or Boroughmonger. erit y ed with which we address him may be re etpec,ation a proof of the interest which we take in the l 2 !kfp of hi s ultimate success. r. I L WAR IN PORTUGAL, AND TEE SIEGE OF OPORTO. By A - BRITISH OFFICER OF HUSSARS. Thi s Londo n : M axon. 1836. ° f the h afair, impartial, and rather minute sketch nt L orY of the various movements and political Vi * " tilrth i : Portugal, from the death of Don John a ctor • accession of Donna Maria. None but an th these al l the scenes, and a more prominent one too auth or • thinks proper to represent himself in the he ' l ye rti sem e s atiric t ,_ lit, could have given so detailed, and at i te p ortu :ne so interesting a narrative, not only of actions Ver n 6l l"e war, but of the intrigues of the several Whose aim it was to seize the reins of the Go b et. th In his sketches of individual character he I Seel ts r, e _ in . ns t Part very happy, chiefly because he qtthi tB ,l s not in the isolated acts but in the Sk °/ rho y 4 e whom he describes. Of John VI. he i _ 44 :eo hds. Ls Passion was the amassing wealth in Pair He was careless in his person. The of - boo ts he would not change until patching them was of no utility ; and the same nankeen trousers must be washed and ironed every night for the morning's use, so darned and mended, that frequently the washerwoman's complaints were loud. His embroidered uniform coat was in constant 'use, emblazOned with thirteen stars. He ate with his fingers. Withal he was a good man, and died beloved if not respected by his people." _ _ The conclusion is not warranted by the public or private life of that Prince, unless imbecility be a elm racteriStic of goodness, or rather goodness itself. Don John was neither good nor bad in any positive sense. In plain English, he was little better than an idiot— spiritless, purposeless, opinionless, and morally power less as a new-born babe.. He was the creature of his Court, and if he sometimes violently opposed the schemes of his infamous Queen, Donna Carlotta Joaquina, the cause is to be found in his secret dis like of her, rather than in any conviction on his part that her Councils were fraught with danger to his throne. The future historian will find this work well worthy his attention. MEETING AT GUILDHALL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, I am instructed by the Society of Cogers, held in Bride-lane, Blackfriars, to inform you that the account given in The Sun of last night, of the proceedings of the great meeting of the London constituency, assembled yes terday in the Guildhall of this city, for the Repeal of the Taxes on Newspapers, was. read to that Society ; and, as several of its members attended the meeting in question, I beg to communicate to you the testimony they then gave, " that your account is a faitliful, full, impartial, rand able report of the speeches and proceedings that took place at that Meeting." I am directed also, to acquaint you, that this Society passed a vote of thanks to you for the great talent and dispatch with which you, in a few hours, gave nearly six columns of your intelligent Journal to the narration of the proceedings of this interesting Meeting. I have also further to communicate to you, as a small tribute of their approbation, that they have resolved to add your valuable Journal to the three daily papers that the SoCiety now read, namely, the Morning Chronicle, Daily Ad vertiser, and Globe ; and I trust that the same love of truth and liberal principles, which has hitherto characterized your Journal, will continue to regulate it in the discharge of the valuable and important duties of a Proprietor of a public Journal. I have the honour to subscribe myself, Sir, Your obedient servant, R. WILLIAMS, Hon. Sec. Cogers' Hall, Tuesday, March, 8, 1836. [We beg to return our best thanks.—En. Sun.] THE ARMY. The Bth of March having been the anniversary of the landing of the British troops in Egypt, in 1801, under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby, the surviving Officers of both services assembled at the Senior United Service Club, according to annual custom, to celebrate by a grand banquet the victories gained over the French in that glorious campaign, under their immortal Chief, who fell in the battle of Alexandria, on the 21st of March, and whose portrait (a work of. great merit, as well as an excellent likeness of the hero), painted purposely for the Club, was appropriately placed at the extremity of the table, having only arrived the preceding day from Edinburgh: Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Sir Lowry Cole, G. C. 8., took. the Chair, having for his Vice-President Col. Reeves, C. 8., and the following distinguished General and Superior Officed:— The Commander of the Forces (Lord Hill), Lord Dunsaney, Gen. Sir James Kempt, Admiral Donelly, Lieut.-Gen. Sir C. Egerton, Sir T. Cochrane, R.N., Major-Gen. Sir J. Barnes, Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. Lyon, Major-Gen. J. Ramsey,- Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. Houston, Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. Low, Sir J. Lymond, Major-Gen- Clitherow, Sir J. Coghill, R.N., Major-Gen. Sir T. Reynell, Major-Gen. Sir C. Doyle, Col. Toliff, Major-Gen. Sir C. Phillips, C a pt a i n K e lly, R.N., Col. Bromhead, Capt. Lloyd, R.N., Capt. Forster, R.N., Col. Duffy, Col. Munro, R. A., Col. Arn o ld, R.N., Capt. Plumridge, R.N., Dr. Hume, Major Austin, Admiral Sir C. Adam. MURDER AT CONISBRO'.—On Monday night last, an atrocious attempt at murder, with the view, it is sup posed, of effecting a robbery, was made at Conisbro', near this town. John Goodlad, an industrious and frugal labourer, up etrds of 60 years of age, was sitting alone in his house, in the act of writing a letter to his wife, who was from home, on a visit to his daughter. About ten o'clock, the cottage was en tered by a young man, about 21 years of age, an apprentice (nearly out of his time), to Mr. Laughton, of the same vil lage, tailor, in an apparently friendly manner, as he bad been in the frequent habit of doing. He placed himself behind the chair of Goodlad, as if he was looking over his shoulder, for the purpose of reading the letter which Goodlad was writing. He in a moment seized him by the neck, and drew from his pocket a butcher's knife, and attempted to cut the throat of his victim. Goodlad, observing the weapon, instantly seized the wrist of his assailant. A severe scuffle ensued, in the course of which Goodlad received several wounds in the neck, face, and hands. He called out " Murder" very loudly, and Beckett thrust his hand into his mouth to seize his tongue, which, from the violence of the attempt, was much injured. In the course of the scuffle, the back of the chair on which Goodlad was sitting broke, and he fell upon the floor and rolled, fortunately, underneath a large dining table ; and whilst in that position, being partly projected, his repeated cries of " Murder" brought several neighbours to his assistance. Beckett was the man by whom he had been so atrociously at tacked, and he was instantly taken into custody. On the way from the cottage to the residence of the officer, he was ob served to take from his pocket a butcher's knife, which be threw away, in a bloody condition.—Doncaster Gazette. Mr. Frederick Clifford, whose performances of mock epilepsy, poison-drinking, &c., have recceived honourable mention in the Gloucester, Bath, and Bristol papers, during the last week, has favoured Taunton with a visit. On Satur day last he was brought in custody to the Guildhall, Taunton, charged with attempts to excite compassion similar to those above alluded to. It appeared that he had, on Thursday even ing, been found performing an epileptic fit in the street, and had been brought by a humane medical gentleman to the work house, where he had been kindly received, and placed in a comfortable room with a good fire, and every necessary. Re marking, however, that " that place did not suit him," he quitted it, and was soon found re-commencing his grimaces in the street, when he was lodged at the mendicity office ; and here the manager, having seen an account of his attempts at Gloucester, ordered that he should be kept in custody, and taken to the Guildhall. Fortunately felt him, from the ab sence of a witness, no act of vagrancy could be made out against him, and he was dismissed with a caution, and wisely left Taunton forthwith. He is a handsome tall young man, with light brown hair and mustachios, and small tuft of beard on the chin, and has the air and language of a person of some education, and is very plausible ; he professed to be on his road to Plymouth, to join the Spanish expedition ; his dress consisted of a long cotton jacket, a figured silk double-breasted waistcoat, neat blue trousers, and an oil-case covered cap.— Bath Herald. GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN MODERN SCHOOL Booxs.—Mr. Guy, the popular author of School Geography, British Spelling Book, School Question Book, &c., has just published three very valuable works on General History, at a price so moderate for such a fund of information, as cannot fail to insure their introduction into all respectable schools. The first is called " Elements of Ancient History," including Greece, Egypt, Persia, Carthage, Rome, the Philistines, Phoenicians, Jews, Goths, Huns, &c., with a copious list of questions for examination at the end of the volume, numbered, to correspond with the figures placed to each paragraph throughout the work. It is neatly printed in 12mo. and con tains upwards of 300 pages, at the moderate price of 3s. 6d. very handsomely bound and lettered. The second is " Ele ments of Modern History," containing France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Prussia, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, America, &a., and is arranged with questions for exa mination in the same manner, printed and bound in the same form, and the price only 3s. 6d. The other volume is called " Elements of British History," including England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, with a copious store of questions for exa mination at•the end of the volume, arranged in the same way as the two preceding, price also 3s. 6d. handsomely bound. Hitherto even in the most respectable schools, it was only thought necessary to make youth acquainted with the histories of Greece, Rome, and England ; indeed no work in a moderate compass embracing the other interesting portions of general history could be found. Conductors of schools are always unwilling to give their pupils large and expensive vo lumes, and having no other, that portion of general history has been left out of school education. How Mr. Guy has supplied this deficiency these very interesting volumes will sufficiently prove—they fill up a void in the school library which has long been wanted ; and it may be asserted without fear of contra diction, that so large a portion of history has not in any work been exhibited within the same compass; the object has been to compress as much as possible, authentic, valuable, and in teresting history inseach volume, and Mr. Guy has never been more successful in accomplishing this object than in the pre sent instance. The volumes are perfectly distinct from each other, and may be purchased separately to meet the wants of the pupil, who may one half-year be studying ancient, another half-year British or modern history. Great curiosity was excited in the city on Saturday morning, on the passing along Cornhill of the frame for an engine now constructing for the London and Greenwich Rail way Company. This frame is formed on the model of an an cient Roman galley, and when flying along the line will pre sent to the spectator no bad idea of those vessels of war by means of which the masters of the world pushed their con quests even to this island. HALLEY'S COMET. Various Captains of vessels lately arrived here, report that Halley's comet has been visible in this hemisphere for the last six weeks ; and we hear it was seen from this city on several evenings of the last week, until Saturday, when it entirely disappeared. —Buenos Ayres Paper, Dec. 14. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1836. Monday, from Belvoir Castle, to attend his Parliamentary duties. His Grace will see company at his seat during Crox ton Park Races, which will close the hunting season in Leices tershire. The Duke of Newcastle has employed Sir Robert Smirko to effect great improvements and alterations in his mansion at Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire. His Grace will shortly commence his parties in Portman-square. The Duke of Devonshire has had his bust exe cuted by M. Dantan, jun., a French artist, and has also or. dered him to make him one of Bellini, in marble, which he intends to place in his magnificent gallery."—Galignani. The Marquis of Lansdowne has a grand dinner party to-morrow, at Lansdowne House, Berkeley-square. The Marchioness of Lansdowne gives a splendid rout this evening, at Lansdowne House, Berkeley-square. The Earl of Meath has left town for Paris. The Earl of Munster does not intend to return to the Continent during the spring. His Lordship has taken a house at Brighton for three months. As Governor of the Royal Castle of Windsor, his Lordship is entitled to apart ments in the round tower ; but he has not taken possession of thorn. The Earl and Countess of Burlington are expected to continue at liolkard, and not return to town till after Easter. The health of the infant Lord Petersham con tinues in a very precarious state, to the great grief of the Earl and Countess of Harrington. It is said the Hon. Lady Jane Blanche, only daughter of his Lordship, is a very pro mising child. _ . Tile Lord Chancellor gave a grand Cabinet dinner yesterday, at his house in Bruton-street, Berkeley-square. The Countess of Carlisle (sister to the Duke of Devonshire) arrived in Grosvenor-square the night before last, from Paris. The Noble Earl continues indisposed with the gout. Dn. M'CRIE.—We understand that his Majesty's Government, in consideration of the importance and national character of the writings of the late Dr. Al' Crie, and as a mark of public respect for the memory of that distinguished author, have, through the Chancellor of the Exchequer, authorised a grant of 2001. to be made from the Royal Bounty Fund, to assist in the publication of his intended works. We believe that Lord Minto has much credit in the above grant.—Edin burgh Courant. _ _ _ With the exception of attending the Newmarket Spring Meeting, the Duke of Rutland will continue at Bel voir Castle until the middle of May, in order to be present at the splendid fetes which will take place in honour of his eldest son's (the Marquis of Granby) attaining his majority. Those given on occasion of the present Duke's coming of age were of an unusually magnificent character. Open house was kept for several days, and the ball on the first night was opened by the Prince of 'Wales and the beautiflil Isabella, Duchess of Rutland. The new Reform Club is in treaty for the purchase of Lady Murray's former residence in Pall-mall, next door to the Carlton Club House, for the purpose of taking it down and erecting their club-house on its site. The Commissioners of Woods and Forests have been applied to on the subject, and also for the space adjoining, on which the former National Gallery stood. The club will consist of 1,500 members, 500 to be balloted for. One of the richest heiresses in the kingdom at pre sent is Miss Wright Wilson, daughter of the late Sir Henry Wilson, Bart., of Chelsea-park, and who, on the demise of her step-mother, Lady. Frances W. Wilson, has succeeded to the large property which was bequeathed to her Ladyship some years since by a stranger named Wright, who had merely seen her at the Opera, the details of which remarkable bequest we gave recently. The house and grounds at Chelsea-park, which are extremely beautiful, pass into the possession of Sir H. Wilson's next male heir. Poor Barnes is a victim to rheumatism, and repeated illnesses had caused involvements which occasioned the Pan taloon to sojourn in Banco Regis for the second time. A Job's comforter addressed him with a sigh, regretting to see him in Surrey again. ". Where would you expect to see Barnes but in Surrey?" replied the merry sufferer. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREENWICH RAlL ROAD.—Yesterday an inquest was held at the workhouse, Ber mondsey, on the body of Henry Holmes, aged twenty-one, who was killed on Monday last, in consequence of injuries he received by one of the steam carriages passing over part of his body on the Greenwich Railroad. It appeared in evidence, that about three o'cicck on Monday, as a train was coming from Deptford, the engine parted from the train of carriages, and continued its course across a branch leading into the other tram-road, where other carriages were then about to start for Deptford, and to which it was to have been affixed ; the engine, on getting into the other tram-road, struck with great force against the first carriage, and had the effect of driving the other carriages back about a yard, when it stopped ; the de ceased was standing on the right hand tram-road after the en gine had separated from the train, and before he had time to get out of the way, the wheel of the engine passed over his body. He was immediately taken up, but expired in a few seconds afterwards. The Jury returned the following verdict : " Accidental Death, occasioned partly by the indiscretion of the deceased. placing himself in a dangerous situation, and partly owing to the great velocity with which the engine ar rived at the usual stopping-place." EXTRAORDINARY • APPLICATION. Yesterday morning, at the Chelsea Petty Sessions, which were held in the Board Room of the Workhouse f the parish of St. Luke's, Chelsea, before Messrs. France and Flood, junior, county magistrates-, a young Lady of about twenty years of age, and most fashionably attired, stated to the Bench that she was the wife of Mr. Denbigh, a clerk in the firm of Messrs. Barclay and Perkins, the celebrated porter brewers, and resided in Canterbury-place, Lambeth. She had lately lost her first and only, child, whom she had been doatingly fond of, the deprivation of which had grieved her much. She had a great penchant for children, and the nat ure o f h er applica tion was, that the bench would be pleased to interest them selves with the parocial authorities in her behalf, in order that those Gentlemen would allow her to select an orphan infant of not more than seven months old to adopt. In the event of her application being granted, she was prepared to convey the babe instantly from the workhouse to her own residence. —( Here Mrs. Denbigh exhibited a complete suit of baby linen, which appeared to be of a superior quality.) Several Gen tlemen expressed their surprise that such an application should be made to a bench of magistrates. The applicant then bad a long conversation with Messrs. France and Flood, who after a discussion of some length with the parochial authorities, Its to the propriety of granting the application, informed Mrs. Denbigh that her request had been complied with. The fair applicant on hearing this appeared much delighted, and after politely thanking the magistrates for entertaining her applica tion, withdrew in the company of Mr. Rose, an overseer, to select an infant from the workhouse. The search, however, was fruitless, as not an orphan child of the before-mentioned age could be found, much to the disappointment of the ma ternal applicant. Last Thursday, between six and seven o'clock, the house of Lord Dunally's wood-ranger was besieged by six armed men. .He who was the apparent leader of the ban ditti, having placed three of the gang as sentinels outside, then entered himself with the other two. Having commanded his accomplices to compel the inmates to stand each and all in position with their backs to them, he proceeded into the room, opened a small chest, and took thence a bill of ex change for 'BOl., half notes for 251., and from forty to fifty sovereigns, with a number of silver pieces. Having secured the booty he came out, drew up his men after the manner of the military, and departed without offering either insult or injury to the plundered, beyond that of ordering him and' those with him to make no alarm at their peril. There were in the house at the time these men entered—Ryan, (the wood-ranger), his son, two daughters, and a servant boy. It being dusk, they could not (even if allowed to scrutinise) distinguish any more than the shadowy outline of the robber gang. Their voices were the voices of strange men ; they came perfectly undisguised ; and they used no other precaution than that of making the occupants turn their faces in a contrary direction.—Conmel Paper. On Friday last an accident of a serious nature hap pened at Brocklesby, the seat of the Right Hon. Lord Yar borough, in this county. A hearse, drawn by four horses, be longing to Miss Walkden, of the Aiigel Inn, in Brigg, was returning from Imingham (to which place they had been con veying the remains of the late Mrs. Richardson, of Limber, for interment), and having to pass by the canal in front of his Lordship's mansion, the driver (who was driving four in hand) incautiously drove into the canal, without loosing the bearing reins, when the horses wanting, it is "supposed, to drink, turned suddenly round and rushed into the deep water, where, after struggling about five minutes, the noble animals all perished, it being impossible to render them any assistance. The hearse sunk and filled with water, and the driver and postillion (who were both on the box at the time) had a miraculous escape from a watery grave; the former was thrown from his seat, and although unable to swim, the great coat he had on buoyed him up, and enabled him to reach the shore in safety. The postillion climbed upon the roof of the hearse, and remained there breast high in water, until a rope could be got to his assistance. He was almost exhausted when brought to the land ; but from the prompt and kind attention given to him by the direction of his Lordship, he is now nearly recovered. The horses, which were remarkably fine animals, were, to- Lether with th e h earse , a f terwar d s d ragge d out o f th e cana l.— incoln Gazette. SUPERSTITION OF WESTMORLAND.-011 Thurs day the 24th ult. an inquest was held before R. S. Stephen son, Esq., coroner, on view of the body of Elizabeth Thomp son, aged 75, the wife of George Thompson, of Shaws, in the township of Langdale, in the parish of Orton, Westmorland. The circumstance of the deceased coming to her death in this melancholy case, are in no ways particular—but the pro ceedings adopted by parties after the accident, mak e one l oo k round and inquire, " Is the schoolmaster abroad or at home ?" The deceased had been' baking some bread in a frying pan, and whilst looking at it, her clothes took fire. She was much burnt about her thighs, back, and her right arm. Instead of applying to a medical man, the husband went to one Jonathan Shepherd, residing a distance of three or four miles from Shaws. He made Shepherd acquainted with the accident, who, placing his hands upon his forehead, and mut tering some few words to himself, told the simpleton to go home again —he had " blown" the fire out. Such is the su• perstition in the neighbourhood, that not only the sufferer, the husband, and many other persons have given credit to the old fellow having a power to effect a cure in the manner above de scribed, without seeing the patient or going near—indeed, only a few months ago a child of Shepherd's met with a simi lar accident, and died in consequence. Had a professional man been called in at the time, it is probable that the deceased would now have been living. . r ' - i,B; '?,~\1., M ~' TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE. BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK. A public Meeting was held yesterday at the Town-hall, Southwark, for the purpose of preparing petitions to Par liament, praying for the total repeal of the Stariip Duty on Newspaper:. At one o'clock the High Bailiff, JOHN HoLmEs, Esq., took the Chair. He said—Gentlemen, punctuality is my motto ; I was here at one o'clock, and if such is your wish I shall wait 'for a short time for our Member, Mr. Humphreys. I have received a letter from Mr. Harvey, stating that it is impossible he can attend, but I expect Mr. Humphreys ever y momen t.—(C r i es of" Wait.") After some little delay, the CHAIRMAN said that the Meeeng had been called by him in consequence of a requi sition very numerously signed by the inhabitant house holders of the Borough. He had always felt great pleasure in attending to their wishes, because he know from experi ence that on all public occasions they had uniformly con ducted themselves in a manner that (lid credit to them, and reflected honour upon those who presided over them.— (Loud cheers.) He would now read the letters that had been received from their Members, and the requisition, and they would then proceed to the business of the day. The letters of Mr. Harvey and Mr. Humphreys were *then read—both gentlemen pleaded the great pressure of business, and being obliged to attend a Committee of the House of Commons at twelve o'clock that day. The requisition, which was signed by about 150 inha bitants of the borough, having been read, Mr. SHARPE felt ireat pleasure in being called upon to propose the first resolution. He was glad to find, that the requisition upon such a subject as the present had been so numerously signed, as it showed the interest taken in the question by the inhabitants of Southwark.—(Hear, hear.) The - taking off the taxes on knowledge would tend much to remove the wretchedness and ignorance which at present prevailed, and which was one of the great causes of crime. —(Cheers.) He hoped the petition on this subject would be unanimously adopted and signed, so that it might be presented to the House of Commons that evening. If knowledge was within every man's reach they would not have the pot-houses and taverns courted every night as at present, while the families of such persons were in want of food and clothing, and the landlord without his •rent.— (Hear, hear.) He trusted that, ere long, they should see these taxes taken off, and the useful information which Newspapers contained within the reach of every man.— (Cheers.) He begged to propose the first resolution, which was as follows : " Resolved, That this meeting is of opinion, that ignorance is a chief cause of the poverty, crime, wretchedness, and degradation of great numbers of the working classes ; and that it makes them an easy prey to designing and cunning men of every description." Mr. THOMAS seconded the resolution. As one of those who felt that he would be benefitted by whatever would tend to diffuse information among the working classes of the people, he should give it his cordial support. The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. Mr. SIMPSON, in moving the next resolution, observed that it was the ignorance which prevailed that had obliged them to meet on the present occasion, and if knowledge was more general, the condition of the working classes would be far superior to what it was. The present Meeting was a practical proof of the necessity for cheap knowledge that existed among the working men, and all should lend their assistance in endeavouring to accomplish this object. Society was all linked together —one class assisted and lived by the other—and therefore it was their duty to do all in their power to assist one another. At present the Stamp Duty put the Newspapers out of the reach of the working classes.-4 Cries of " Hear.") If the tax were once taken off, they would have new Suns and Stars to supply the people with that information they so much needed.— (Cheers.) He felt confident that the present Government would take off the tax ; because every good Government should be anxious that its proceedings were generally known, and would have no object in hiding its light under a bushel. As the law at present stood the public were kept in the dark as to how the business of the country was conducted ; but if these taxes were once taken off all men would be able to distinguish right from wrong, and know to what men and to what measures they shoed give their support. and against them, so that a wise Government could scarcely decide what was the feeling of the people ; but now while the tables of the Houses of Parliament were loaded with petitions in favour of the abolition of taxes on newspapers, not one was presented against them. He might suppose then that all who had not petitioned were in their favour. It was known that the great inconvenience of repealing the duty altogether arose from the machinery in the Post-office. Now, supposing a friend of his in Manchester and he were joined in taking the Tinzcs newspaper—(Groans)--each paid threepence-halfpenny, but if the duty were taken off, his friend would have it for three-halfpence, and would thereby be enabled to pay a penny for postage, and yet have the paper cheaper than at present. After a few other ob servations, Mr. M'Connell concluded by seconding the re solution. 'Mr. SAUL next rose to address the Meeting. The High Bailiff said, according to custom, the gentle man had not the right to address them ; he would put it to them whether they would have him or not. A show of hands was taken, and Mr. SAUL proceeded. He came there for the purpose of supporting the cause of general education, and he trusted the sentiments he might deliver would be received as from a warm friend to the cause. From the present Government they had a right to expect Liberal measures, and he was sure that nothing would so surely indicate their good inten tions towards the country as the abrogation of those odious laws which now trammelled the Press—(Cheers)--and tended so to prevent the spread of useful knowledge. What was it which was the cause of the lamentable scenes which were seen in that and other Courts where Sessions were held ? Nothing but ignorance : the people were kept in ignorance of their rights.—( Hear, hear.) Let the Press be free and unshackled, and then it would be seen that fewer cases would come before those whd pre sided in such Courts.—(Cheers.) Public opinion was now much alive to the question. A glorious meeting had been held that week, at which fife Lord Mayor presided, and at which the Governor of the Bank and other eminent men supported the measure. He was sorry to see so thin a meeting there. The men of Southwark ought to unite and combine for so good a purpose, in spite of all the ob loquy which might be cast upon them. There was a senseless cry got up that property would be in danger if they succeeded in removing the odious tax upon Newspapers. He had some property, the produce of his own industry, but he wanted to exercise it for the benefit of all—for the education of all, and then his property would be secure.— (Cheers.) He trusted such sentiments would become ge neral ; he saw them becoming more and more so every day, and it gave him the most heartfelt pleasure. The inse curity of property depended only upon the ignorance of the people. Educate them, and property becomes safe.— (Cheers.) What was the cause of the mighty incendiary fires of which an account was given in almost every paper.? It was in-norance alone. Let the working man have his paper ; he would study its contents, and property would become safe.—(Hear, hear.) Ignorance was the cause— the destruction of property the effect. Remove the cause, and according to the soundest philosophy, the e ff ec t wou ld cease.—(Cheers.) He was most anxious for the time— which, he was glad to say, was no! fast approaching— when every child which was born would receive an educa tion from masters who were paid by the State.—(Cheers.) All men, whether born in high or low life; were susceptible of the finest and the most noble feelings, which education alone could call into existence. He was certain of that, and therefore he wanted to see every child instructed and well grounded in moral sentiments at the earliest dawn of reason, when the impressions given were most lasting.— (Cheers.) He knew that even where the doors were opened to the people for public instruction, that they were remiss ; but let it follow them to their houses, till they were grounded in it, and then they would become fond of it.— (Cheers.) The working people would then put their pence together, not for the purpose of spending in a public house, but for the purpose of affording mutual instruction to themselves or their children. He was most happy to have been called upon to move— ., That in the judgment of this meeting, the Stamp Duty on Newspapers contributes to perpetuate ignorance amongst the work ing classes, by placing the price of such Newspapers out of their reach ; and that to read such papers they are induced to frequent public houses, at which they spend much money, and of which money their wives and children are defrauded: and that this meet ing is also convinced, that the working classes are ignorant of many of the laws of the land which they are bound to obey ; and that the law is frequently violated by them in ignorance." The last paragraph was deserving of the most serious at tention on the part of the Meeting. They were almost all workmen, and ought to bear in mind the fate of the Dor chester victims. They . must lend their support to the re peal of the tax upon knowledge, so that all might be aware of the laws to which he was called upon to pay obedience. It was with pleasure that he proposed the resolution. A GENTLEMAN seconded the resolution, and it was passed unanimously. Dr. WADE said that the excuse made for not bringing forward a measure to repeal the taxes on knowledge in the last Parliament was that it was then too late, and the excuse now was that it was too early.—(Hear, hear.) The imme diate reason he believed of its postponement was the neces sity which existed for getting through the Irish Municipal Bill, and he was quite sure there was not an individual present who would not at once acknowledge the validity of the excuse.—(Cheers.) He believed that the great ma jority of the people of Southwark were favourable to the the objects of the Meeting, and although the smallness of the building in which they were assembled had prevented many from attending, still it was not on that accouat to be inferred that the inhabitants of that borough were indifferent to the question.—(Hear, hear.) He was sorry to say that there existed a great diversity of opinion amongst the Mem bers of the Government as to the expediency of abolishing taxes upon knowledge. Mr. Spring Rice was opposed to it on financial grounds. Indeed, in a late speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman at Cambridge, he said he was a " taxing animal." Now, in one sense, they were all animals ; but he did not think that the minds of the people should be debased by reducing them to the- state of animals of the brute creation. The Learned Doctor proceeded to prove from Scripture that it was against the ordinances of religion and morality to keep the people in ignorance ; and what was morally wrong, could not be politically right. He con cluded by proposing the following resolution : That in the judgment of this Meeting, Newspapers are, from the novelty and v ar i e t y o f t h e i r contents, the best vehicles for commu nicating necessary and suitable knowledge to the working classes, the greater part of whose time is taken up in bodily labour, and that The resolution . was then put and carried unanimously. The petition, which embodied the sentiments contained in the resolutions, was then read and agreed to ; and after a vote of thanks to the High Bailiff the meeting separated ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LrNcoLm, M4RCH 7. Mr. Justice BOSANQUET arrived in this city above five o'clock on Saturday afternoon, from Oakham (where there was a maiden assize, there being neiteer a cause nor pri soner for trial), and proceeded immediately to open the commissions for the city and county. The cause paper con tains nine common jury cases ; and there are on the crimi nal side the names of nineteen prisoners for trial, charged with the perpetration of the following crimes :—One for arson, five for burglary, two for highway robbery, three for unnatural offences, one for bigamy, one for cutting and maiming, One for knowingly receiving stolen goods, two for horse-stealing, and three for minor offences. CRIMINAL COURT.— William Wells, aged thirty-five, and Ishmael Croft, aged twenty-eight years, were charged with burglary in breaking open the house of William Johnson, and stealing therefrom various articles, and Richard Sellars was charged with having received part of the same, know ing them to have been stolen. The Jury having found a verdict against them, and it appearing that Wells had been on four different occasions tried at the bar for similar offences, the Court sentenced Wells to transportation for life, Croft to fourteen, and Sellars to seven years' transportation. Anderson Wa;d, alias George Ward, aged thirty years, was found guilty of having intermarried with Sarah Turner, his former wife, Lucy Ward, being then alive, and was sen tenced to eight months' imprisonment. TUESDAY, MARCH 8. ALLIS V. LEE. This action Was brought to recover the sum of ten gui neas. The defendant who is an extensive farmer residing in this county, had, in June, 1835, lost thirty-five sheep, all of which he, however, succeeded in recovering except nine ; and, suspecting them to have been stolen, he printed handbills, wherein he offered to pay ten guineas to whom soever would give such information as would lead to the discovery or conviction of the offender or offenders. The plaintiff had called upon one Osborn, and told him that three sheep had been left on the premises of the plaintiff's master in Bennington allotment, which he said there was no doubt bad been stolen ; and he desired Osborn, if he heard of any one having lost sheep to come and tell him, and he would pay for any trouble or expense Osborn might be at ; and Osborn having heard of the defendant's loss informed him of the: above circumstances, when Lee said there was no doubt but that they were his sheep safe enough, and he would send his grandson on the following morning to look at them. The sheep were subsequently identified by the defendant as his property, and having been traced to the possession of a man of the name of Lupton, he was ar rested, tried for the offence, and convicted. A question then arose between the parties, as to who had been chiefly instrumental in tracing the other six sheep, and whether the information given in respect of them had not principally led to the arrest and conviction of Lupton ; and, there being several claimants, Lee offered to refer the question as to which claimant was entitled to the reward to the decision of any of the county magistrates, which offer was refused. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages ten guineas. In the course of yesterday the Grand Jury threw out the bill against Thomas Theakstone, for setting fire to a corn stack at Waltham, in this county. NORFOLK CIRCUIT.-.AYLESBURY, MARCH 8. The business of the Circuit commenced yesterday. Soon after two o'clock, Mr. Justice Park and Mr. Justice Gazalee entered / the town, escorted by the high sheriff, T. T. Drake, Esq., of Shardlowes, and a numerous retinue. After opening the Commission, the Learned Judges pro ceeded to the parish church, where an excellent sermon was preached by the Sheriff's chaplain, the Rev. J. Drake, rector of Amenham. This morning, precisely at ten o'clock, .Mr. Justice Ga zalec took his seat on the bench in the Nisi Prius Court, and at eleven o'clock Mr. Justice Park entered the Cri minal Court, and after the Grand Jury were sworn (Sir Thomas Aubrey, Bart., foreman) the Learned Judge ad dressed them in an able and elaborate charge. The calendar contains the names of thirty-nine prisoners; one case of murder, one of arson, and several burglaries and highway robberies. The Commission will be opened at Bedford, on Thurs day, the 10th. In consequence of the important business in the House of Commons, none of the Members were present at the Assizes. Friday, Patrick Flanigan and Thomas Flanig6anUn derwent 'the final sentence of the law at Waterford.. .Patrick of Flanigan was condemned for hastenin g the death his wife by leaping on her body, and Thomas Flanigan was found guilty a o s f first r t s h t e s t m o o u d rc l o e n r thoef drop, and, n ll , d l , ul a l o d w a r n eh e s y si n g n ear Tramore. the multitude murder of Mary Mullowney, but he had abus ed her, and deser ve d hi s d ea th. in Irish, declared he was tprei g ao t lp t , i l l e t n y . gthuielrtehaandybepeenrsoinn dPiasptrui ctakbldyi dproved a d u d re o s n s i t i l i t s e who doubted it. Patrick appeared to die at once without or of w ilis as t e pain ; Thomas, a younger, stouter, and more masculine man, struggled convulsively a short time. Patrick was about thirty, but Thomas of scarce more than twenty. It rained heavily all the time wastheprecisely execution, sucahnad one persons a s thatw were which heard to say the e n ti re d ay the murder of the young woman was committed. therefore this meeting decides to petition Parliament for the tots; repeal of the Stamp Duty on NewsWrs. Mr. M'CONNELL said theri„;was one thing to.be re marked in reference to the character , of the Meetirriwhich had been omitted by former speak • 0tr44711 e wished to bring under their notice. The re • signed by all the men of influence and of property in the borough ; that fact sufficiently showed that the sentiments of the higher classes were in favour of the object they had in view —while the attendance of the working classes, at an hour when leaving their daily occupations should be attended with inconvenience, proved the deep interest they felt in the success of the question then under consideration.—(Hear, hear.) The resolution proposed by Dr. Wade stated the opinion of that Meeting, that Newspapers were the best vehicles for conveying necessary and suitable information for the mechanics and labouring portion of the community. Pamphlets might be published free of any duty, and on any subject of politics or of finance which the writers might choose to notice ; but pamphlets were generally too abstruse in their reasoning, and too lengthy in details, to be read by those persons whose time must be devoted to labour and in dustrious pursuits. The reading of . books would be, in his opinion, too great a drawback on the time of the poor, who could not stop to inquire into abstract discussions, while Newspa-ers abounded in novelties, and almost always con tained facts which were useful to understand.—(Hear, hear.) The people wished for information, not reasoning, which was only contained in the editorial articles of the public journals. It was not, he thought, necessary to enter into arguments in proof of the benefits of any system ; the people would judge of it by the effects which it produced. They ascertained the value of a tree by its fruits ; and when they saw the working of any law, they would be enabled to decide whether it was a good or a bad one.— (Hear.) He was of opinion that the reading of police re ports in the daily newspapers would ‘ teach the lower orders how to avoid the evils which they saw brought down punishment on those who infringed the law. It should be remarked, that the circulation of cheap newspapers would not interfere with pamphlets, because they had quite a dif ferent class of readers, and for one who took up a pamphlet, there were one thousand who would read the newspapers of the day. It was stated that the law had been frequently broken by the working classes through ignorance, as was the case with the Dorchester victims—(Hear)—whose fate they had occasion frequently to recur to, and painfully to reflect upon. But if it was the duty of a Government to see that good laws were obeyed, it was equally their duty that these laws should be known.—(Hear, hear.) He knew that a perfect acquaintance of the law was compatible with a violation of its dictates, but if the people were not aware of its provisions, how could it be ex pected that they should observe them ?----(Cheers.) The Magistrates at the Police offices would have but half their usual business when knowledge was freely disseminated-- idleness and drunkenness would be done away with, and the beneficial effects of cheap publications would soon be found in the improved lives and conduct of the humbler classes of society. Cabmen, and those of that grade, from whom nothing refined or polished could be now expected, would, by the diffusion of cheap information, have rubbed off a great share of that coarseness which may now be found among them—as the enlightened head and the feelingheart generally made the honest man.—(Cheers.) He hoped they would not be content with any reduction of taxation on this subject—that they would cry out for its total abolition. When the Catholic question and other great measures were brought forward there were numerous petitions for THE KING'S LEVEE. The King, attended by Sir Herbert Tayldr, arrived in town at half-past one o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Windsor Castle. His Majesty was received at St. James's by the Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Augusta, and the Duke of Cumberland. At two o'clock the King held a Levee. Count George Spiridione Metaxa, of Cephalonia, was pre sented to his Majesty, by Lord Glenelg. The Levee was attended by the Duke of Cumberland, Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal, the French Ambassodor, the Neapolitan, Prussian, Sardinian, Swedish, Wurtemberg, Ha noverian,' Danish, Portuguese, Grecian, Bavarian, Brazilian, Netherlands, and Saxon Ministers ; Nourri Effendi, the Otto man Minister, attended by Mr. Salame, his Majesty's Oriental Interpreter, and by M. Vogoridis, his own Interpreter ; the Austrian and United States Charges d'Affaires; Mr. Wallez, the Belgian Charge d'Affaires; M. Bourguenay, First Secretary to the French Embassy ; the Secretary to the Russian Em bassy ; Count de Plessen, Attache to the Danish Legation ; the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Postmaster-General, the Captain of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Captain of the Yeoman of the Guard, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Vice- Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, the Comptrol ler of the Household, the Attorney-General, the Master of the Ceremonies, Sir Samuel Spry, Lieutenant of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ; Mr. Pearson, Lieutenant, Captain Houlton, Ensign, Mr. Ellerthorp, Clerk of the Check, and Mr. Samuel Hancock, Exon of the Yeomen of the Guard ; Rev. Dr. Blomberg and the Rev. Montague Wyn yard, Deputy Clerks of the Closet; Sir J. B. Pechell, Naval, A. D. C. in Waiting ; Colnnel Arnold, Royal Engineers, A.D. C. to the King • Master Ellice, Page of Honour; Captain Courtney Boyle, R. N., Groom of the Privy Cham ber; Lieutenant-Colonel Cavendish, Equerry in Waiting; Lieut.-Colonel Sir H. Wyatt, Single Stick, in Waiting ; Lieut.-Col. Sir Frederick Smith, Gentleman Usher in Wait ing, and the following— EARLS—Rosebery, Clare, Lichfield, Stanhope, Chichester. LORDS—F. Beauclerk, D.D. ; Segrave. BlSHOP—Lincoln. RIGHT HONOUR/MRS—Sir Gore Ouseley, Charles Tenny son D'Eyncourt. Sras--J. Shelley, Frederick Pollock, James Rivett Cantu., H. Bethune, Harry Verney, G. Clerk. REVEREND—Lord J. Thynne. MESSIEURS—Robert Pollock, J. W. Birch, W. Tatton Egerton, Thomas Estcourt, H. Johnstone, J. A. Lambert, T. Gray, Cosby, Junes, Estcourt. GENERALS—EIIice, Sir Henry Cumming, Lord Aylmer, Sir James Lyon, Sir J. Lambert, Sir J. Smith, G. C. H., Sir T. Brown, Grosvenor. COLONELS—Dawson Darner, Harris, Dean Pitt, Chatter ton, Sir H. Townsend, Jones, Salmond, Lambert . , Hon. H. Murray, Cleaveland, Ewart. MAioe—Wells. CAPTAINS—MeIviIIe Grindley, F. Pelham, Hilton, H. 'A. Jackson, Craven Berkeley. LIEUTENANTS—BeaucIerk, Ilderton. - ENSIGNS— HiIton, Anson. ADMlRALS—Sotheroal Mundy, Sir W. Hotham. CAPTAINS—Sir Henry Hart, K. C. H., Sir A. Farquhar, Skipsey, Sir J. G. Bremer, Christian, De Roos, Lloyd, Bow yer, Berkeley. COMMANDERS—Rivett Carnac, Henry West. LIEUTENANT—CharIes H. Ackerley. The following addresses were presented to the King : From the Town Council of the Corporation of Louth, thanking his Majesty for the Municipal Corporation Reform Act, by the Right Hon. Charles Tennyson D'Eyncourt, High Steward. From the South Suffolk Agricultural Association, on agri cultural distress, by Earl Stanhope. The following were presented to his Majesty Sir James Rivett Carnac, on being made a Baronet, by Lord Glenelg. Mr. Robert Pollock, on his appointment to the Madras Ca valry, by his father, Sir Frederick Pollock. Sir Harry Verney, on his marriage, by Sir Herbert Taylor. Lieut. Beauclerk, on his appointment to the Scots Fusileer Guards, by the Rev. Lord Frederick Beauclerk. Ensign Anson, on his appointment to the 3d Eoot, by Lieut.- General Sir George Anson. Ensign Hilton, on his appointment to the 9th Foot, by Lieut. - General Sir William Keir Grant. Mr. J. A. Lambert, on his appoiatment to the Grenadier Guards, by Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Lambert. Lient.- General Sir James Lyon, on being appointed to the command of the army in British North America, by Lord Hill. Colonel Sir Horatio Townshend, on his appointment as Knight Commander of Hanover, by Vis Count Sydney. Lieut.-Colonel Dean Pitt, 80th Regiment, on being ho noured with the Third Class of the Guelphic Order, by Col. Sir Leonard Greenwell. Sir Henry Bethune, to take leave on his return to Persia. Colonel •almond, on his promotion by Sir J. C. Hobhouse. Captain Sir Henry Hart, R. N., K. C. H., on his receiving the honour of Knighthood. Captain 'H. A. Jackson, 80th Regiment, on promotion, by Lieut.-Gen. Sir R. Donkin. Captain Hilton, 16th Lancers, on his return to India, by Lieut.-General Sir William Keir Grant. Lieut. Ilderton, 80th Regiment, on promotion, by Lieut.- General Sir R. Donkin. Lord Segrave, on his appointment to the Lord Lieutenancy of the county of Gloucester, by Viscount Melbourne. Lieutenant Charles H. Ackerley, R.N., to return thanks on his Majesty's Exchequer recognising the chartered rights of the Chamberlayne family, as Lord of the Manor of Stow on the Wold, to possess the imperial standard for weights and measures. After the Levee, his Majesty held a Privy Council, which was attended by the following Cabinet Ministers—viz.: the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the President of the Board of Control. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in 'Waiting. The King gave audience to Colonel Mackinnon, the Field Officer in Waiting ;" the Earl of Lichfield, Viscount Mel bourne, Marquis' of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, Lord J. Russell, Lord Glenelg, Earl of Minto, Sir John Hobhouse, the Earl of Albemarle, and Lord Hill. Lord Gardner and Sir William Houston were the Lord and Groom in Waiting, The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria walked and drove in the Parks yesterday. The Duke of Cumberland and the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg, dined with the Princess Augusta on Tuesday evening. The Duchess of Kent entertained a large and distinguished party at dinner yesterday. Prince Ernest of Hesse Philipsthal dined with the Russian Ambassador on Wednesday evening, in Dover-street. Hi s Serene Highness afterwards visited the King's Theatre. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Marquis of Bath, in South Audley-street, from his seat, Longleat, Wilts; the Archbishop of Armagh, in Charles.. street, St. James's-square, from the palace, Armagh, Ireland ; J. Blackburn, Esq., from Ireland; the Marquis and Marchio ness of Bristol, in St. James's-square, from Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. H. Thomas, at Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, from their seat in Radnorshire ; Colonel Hunter Blair, at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Leamington ; Wm. Davis, Esq., at ditto, from a tour ; William Turner, Esq., from Shrigley Park, Macclesfield ; Sir Francis and Lady Stapleton, and family, at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from ; Admiral Sir Graham and Lady M their seat, Br oo k F arm , S urre y ; th e Gray's oore Court, a t ditto, f a r r o m Henley Earl and Countess of Dunraven, Lady Maria Wyndham Quin, and suite, at the Green Park Hotel, Piccadilly, from the Con tinent ; Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, Bart., and Lady Cullum, at ditto, from Hardwicke House, Suffolk ; Mr. and Mrs. Gib son, at ditto, from Saxmundham ; Col. and Lady A. Peel, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's -street, from Staffordshire ; T. G. Corbett, Esq., M. P., at ditto, from Lincolnshire; R. P. Weddall, at ditto, from Warwickshire ; Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Rous, at ditto, from Worstead ; Messrs. Alexander, Read, and Worthington, at the St. James's Royal Hotel, St. James's street, from Northwick ; Thomas Page, Esq., at ditto, from his seat, Ely ; Col. and Captain W. V. Graham, at ditto, from Gibraltar ; Capt. Rose, 4th Dragoon Guards, at ditto, from Brighton. DEPARTURES.. Lord F. Fitzclarence, for Windsor Castle ; the Earl and Countess of Errol, for Richmond ; Mr. and Mrs. Hartopp, from Symmons's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Melton Mow bray ; Edward Lucas, Esq., M.P., from Batt's Hotel, Dover street, for his seat in Ireland ; Mr. and Mrs. Phillips, from ditto, for Brighton ; Lord Lifford, for Brighton ; George Mor gan, Esq., for his seat in Herts ; Lady E. Baker, for Essex ; Captain and Mrs. Johnstone, from Ellis's Hotel, St. James's street, for Midgan, near Newbury ; Gilbert Munroe, Esq., from ditto, for Brighton ; Dr. Campbell, from ditto, for Hampton Court ; Colonel Shaw Kennedy, from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Manchester ; Viscount Falkland, from ditto, for Windsor ; Lord Elphinstonc, from ditto, for ditto ; Captain Brooke, from ditto, for Ireland ; John Hume, Esq., from ditto, for ditto; the Earl of Meath, from the St. James's Royal Hotel, . St. James's -street, for Paris ; Lady Acheson, from ditto, for Suffolk ; Greaves, Esq., from ditto, on a tour; B. D'lsraeli, Esq., from ditto, for Hemel Hempstead; Alexander Smith, Esq., from ditto, for Glasgow. It is rumoured in the Continental circles of fashion that her Royal Highness the Princess Clementine, daughter of the King of the French, is likely to bestow her hand on her illustrious cousin, the King of Naples, at the expiration of his widowhood. His Majesty's packet, Captain Hamilton, is ordered to. be in attendance at Calais, on Tuesday, to bring over his Highness Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and his brother, Prince Augustus. The Duchess of Kent has bestowed an annual subscription of ten guineas upon the Infirmary for Diseases of the Skin. More than one-half of the income granted to her Royal Highness by Parliament is given to the charities of the United Kingdom. - The Diike of Portland left his seat, Welbeck Abbey, Notts, on Monday last ; we understand his Grace con templates a voyage to Lisbon, on a visit to Lord Howard de Walden. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield and family are expected at Chesterfield House, fro► l3retby Park, on Wednesday next. The Duke of Rutland arrived in Bolton-street on